{"id":2101,"date":"2013-07-10T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2013\/07\/10\/inrelease-acquisition-is-complete\/"},"modified":"2013-07-10T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T09:00:00","slug":"inrelease-acquisition-is-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/inrelease-acquisition-is-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"InRelease Acquisition is complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At TechEd, in early June, I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/bharry\/archive\/2013\/06\/03\/visual-studio-2013.aspx\">announced<\/a> our agreement to acquire InRelease &ndash; a release management product built specifically for Team Foundation Server by InCycle Software.&nbsp; Since then, we&rsquo;ve received tons of requests for more information, demos, etc.&nbsp; Unfortunately, we&rsquo;ve only been able to point people at InCycle because the acquisition was not final.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m happy to say that about a week ago we closed the acquisition and InRelease is now a part of Microsoft.\nThat doesn&rsquo;t mean we can start selling it right away.&nbsp; There are a number of things that have to happen in order to enable that &ndash; getting it on our price lists, shipping a version that is properly branded, serviceable, etc.&nbsp; All of that will take a few months but there are some good options for you in the interim.&nbsp; Let me share some of them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We are providing a preview of our future Release Management product today.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s basically the existing InRelease product with some minimal changes to meet some of our compliance requirements.&nbsp; You can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/inreleasepreviewdownload\">here<\/a>.&nbsp; You can also read the <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/inreleasepreviewuserguide\">InRelease Preview User Guide<\/a> and ask questions on the <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/inreleaseforum\">forum<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>InCycle Consulting will continue as an independent company and, until we ship the first fully Microsoft product, will continue to provide trials and sell the InRelease product.&nbsp; Customers who purchase now will be provided a free upgrade to the Microsoft shipped version when it is available.&nbsp; This is a good way to get started now and be sure that you also have a good path forward.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hopefully these two paths will solve everyone&rsquo;s needs while finish up the changes we need to make.\nI also want to say a few words about licensing so you, at least, have a little context on what to expect.&nbsp; We are not ready to announce pricing but I can share a bit about the structure of the licensing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The InRelease release management authoring components will be included in Visual Studio Test Professional, Visual Studio Premium and Visual Studio Ultimate.<\/li>\n<li>Everything needed to participate in a release process (as opposed to configuring it) will be included in the Team Foundation Server CAL.<\/li>\n<li>The InRelease server components will be integrated into Team Foundation Server 2013.<\/li>\n<li>The InRelease deployers (which are required for each node you deploy on) will continue to be licensed separately.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For now, we are focused on getting InRelease integrated into our on premises product.&nbsp; We will also support our cloud service but that will come a bit later.\nPlease give it a try and give us any feedback you have.&nbsp; As you might imagine, we are currently working on developing and prioritizing our backlog.\nThanks,<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At TechEd, in early June, I announced our agreement to acquire InRelease &ndash; a release management product built specifically for Team Foundation Server by InCycle Software.&nbsp; Since then, we&rsquo;ve received tons of requests for more information, demos, etc.&nbsp; Unfortunately, we&rsquo;ve only been able to point people at InCycle because the acquisition was not final.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":14617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,4],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tfs","tag-visual-studio"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>At TechEd, in early June, I announced our agreement to acquire InRelease &ndash; 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